Aug 18, 2020
Odd Girl Out by Ann Weldy (1957)
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Odd Girl Out by Ann Weldy (1957)
And then she looked around the room again, and suddenly she saw a girl with her arm around another girl at a table not far away. Her heart jumped. A pair of boys at the bar were whispering urgently to each other.Gay, Laura thought to herself. Is that what they call it? Gay? She was acutely uncomfortable now. It was as if she were a child of a civilization, reared among the savages, who suddenly found herself among the civilized. She recognized them as her own. And yet she had adopted the habits of another race and she was embarrassed and lost with her own kind.They looked at her - her own kind - from the bar and from the tables, and didn't recognize her. And Laura looked around at them and thought, I'm one of you. Help me. But if anyone had approached her she would have turned away.
Ann Weldy, under the pseudonym Ann Bannon, I Am a Woman (New York: Gold Medal Books, 1959), 29.